skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different tasks then? If you are using VLMs in the context of medical imaging, I have concerns. That is not a place to use hallucinatory AI.

But yes, the transformer model itself isn't useless. It's the application of it. OCR, image description, etc, are all that kind of narrow-intelligence task that lends itself well to the fuzzy nature of AI/ML.
There isn't a serious proof that 1+1=2, because it's near enough axiomatic. In the last 150 years or so, we've been trying to find very general logical systems in which we can encode "1", "2" and "+" and for which 1+1=2 is a theorem, and the derivations are sometimes non-trivial, but they are ultimately mere sanity checks that the logical system can capture basic arithmetic.
How Would You Do If You Went to Space for Eight Days and Were Gone Six Months?
Huh? You're comparing engineering failures to firing missiles at civilians?
These benchmarks are all flawed.

You can't measure input latency properly without a camera (or pixel access to the screen but then have to be careful it's not impacting your benchmark). The latency benchmark is just testing VT IO throughput for a specific zsh prompt. Not at all related to input latency.

The plaintext IO benchmark is suspiciously slow for both Alacritty and Ghostty relative to Kitty. I ran the same on my machine and got within 15% between all three. They're all fast but something looks wrong here. I also have issue with the contents, which aren't representative in my opinion of human output (that's why I like to use books as my plaintext IO benchmark). This changes things.

The memory usage doesn't explain the setup at all, nor exactly how memory is read (I'm not sure what the `mem` column is reading in btop). Memory usage on macOS is tricky to benchmark because the OS tries very hard to _not free memory_. As a macOS kernel guy told me once: "freed memory is wasted memory" [so long as you're not using all memory]. There are other metrics you can get out of the kernel to get accurate _allocated and used memory_. Activity Monitor exposes these well. (EDIT: Just realized the tests were on Linux, which should be better, so this might be okay but test setup still matters here)

I'm not saying any are directionally wrong, and I'm also not trying to claim Ghostty is the fastest (I don't, I claim it's just "fast", not the fastest). But this is not good benchmarking.
https://archive.ph/7ToaR
Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be available when you create an account disappears when you try to create an animation
This isn't a software issue. This is a hackers-found-out-they-were-cheating-and-deactivated-their-train-DRM-and-now-these-hackers-are-getting-sued-issue.

And getting sued by a train manifacturer is typically a asymmetrical battle for a private person. Consider watching the original talk (very entertaining and insightful, probably one of the best hacking related videos I watched in 2024), and if you like them toss them a tenner or so.
They asked an intentionally problematic question in order to elicit a negative response because their comment was about AI guardrails.
https://archive.ph/qOFrr

I highly support requirements to identify benefitial owners of corporations, but this law only requires that discloser for small companies:

Larger companies that employ more than 20 people, have revenues above $5 million and a physical presence in the US, are exempt from the act. Churches, charities and other non-profits are also exempt.

So, if you're a larger organized crime syndicate, you're exempt? Classic murica. All the posturing, none of that worrisome crime prevention. I mean, we really need to stamp out the retail shoplifters, because they're infringing on the profits of the larger mafia orgs!
Final boss: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Error message:
Repository is too large (>200k tokens) for analysis. Claude 3.5 Sonnet's max context length is 200k tokens. Current size: 1334798 tokens.

Cool project though!
Kudos!
CEO of Finaloop (real-time financial solution) just offered a migration package and 75% off.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7278469880629067776-...
I guess it’s better in the same way FM radio is “better” than a CD. But streaming is always worse, quality wise.
> Their fundamental issues (black box + hallucinations)

Aren’t humans also black boxes that suffer from hallucinations?

E.g. for hallucinations: engineers make dumb mistakes in their code all the time, normal people will make false assertions about geopolitical, scientific and other facts all the time. c.f. The Dunning Kruger effect.

And black box because you can only interrogate the system at its interface (usually voice or through written words / pictures)
I couldn't figure out how to donate from their website. Where did you donate to?
YouTube can only stop if it the guy goes on Joe Rogan, then they can screw around with it with impunity.
Yes? Unless we want to let manufacturers sell us a vehicle but license the code that makes it run.
> I highly encourage everyone to watch the previous presentation: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_tra...

According to the schedule [1], there's a presentation from that team titled "We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure" that will start at 23:00 local time (in about 30 minutes at the time of this writing) on this livestream [2].

Edit: presentation's over and it was outstanding.

[1] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/event/we-ve-not-b...

[2] https://streaming.media.ccc.de/38c3/eins/hls
Nah, you see how government mobilizes for one CEO who had truly broad-based loathing. Americans worship the rich more than any other religion now. And if it's bad for profits (like paying more to get people with a high standard of living motivated), it's just bad.

It's quite similar to the agricultural and construction workers, except for the visa situation.
O1 is fine.
>studying their reactions

Well what are their reactions?
> For the vast majority of humans this is how it works currently.

No it is not. Like I said, everyone knows everyone has an internal "filter" on what you say (and do). The threat of law enforcement may motivate everything (if you want to be edgy with how you look at it), but that is not the same thing as being actively, physically corrected at every turn, which is what the analogy in question lines up with.
Please don't be snarky or cross into personal attack. We're trying for the opposite here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Won’t say more on the boat, I hope you understand, sorry…
Thank you. I'm well aware of the innovation in bidet and toilet technologies to assist in more hygienic defecation routines and the different environmental impact such as less toilet paper, different energy considerations, plastics, water usage, etc.
an e.V. is by its very nature very non-profit-y. I am not an expert, so I encourage you to look up e.V. aka "eingetragener Verein", but basically, its similar to a nonprofit and a lot of rules and laws apply. Its not formally a non-profit in any country because e.V. is a specific German thing. You can, however, rely on that being very rock solid and not for-profit.
That’s a fair point and I had to re-read that sentence multiple times to understand what they are saying. They should indeed say how much money towards this cause has been received.
This looks really interesting, I instantly found a drawing of my kids to upload because I thought he would love it, but I was unable to even try it once without paying.
What every public business exec wants. More money short term. They have zero concept of long term strategies at this point.
If its a frontend/content-only site (no backend logic), there is a way!

Its very different to what others will suggest, but it will cost nothing and is easy to do.

Convert the HTML/CSS/JS bundle into a base64 url

If it fits in that scheme, the base64 url can basically act as a hash for the website.

As the long as that base64 url is saved somewhere, you can run the site by pasting it into the url bar.

Then its just a question of storage

- Internet archive

- Hard-drives

etc
Wow, this is awesome:

https://gitdiagram.com/EI2030/Low-power-E-Paper-OS

https://gitdiagram.com/hatonthecat/Solar-Kernel

https://gitdiagram.com/hatonthecat/OpenSourceCondo

https://gitdiagram.com/hatonthecat/Open-Source-Car
This would make a fascinating case study about how many people have never looked up at their own skies before. I also wouldn't be surprised if the hysteria is being amplified to distract from all the other nonsense in the world right now.
It's rather unclear how this integrates with the OS you run on top of.

I think a short explanation of how this actually works (not the post-quantum crypto part, but rather the plumbing into the networking stack of your box) would be very helpful.

[EDIT]: an a very quick first glance at the python source code and the install scripts reveals that a PQconnect install performs rather intrusive changes to your system:

- installs lots of packages
- installs a daemon running under systemd
- creates a new user
- creates a new tunnel network device

I'm going to take a wild initial guess and assume that there's some dynamic manipulation of low-level networking state (routing tables, iptables, etc...), which makes me rather queasy to install this on a production and/or work system because I have no idea if it is going to wreck my existing setup.

Also, the server is written in python ... I most certainly hope the python code is not in any way processing / redirecting network traffic itself in userland, or performance is going to be awful.

All of this points to the fact that an overview of how pqconnect grafts itself into your Linux system would be most welcome.
How about Novgorod, which was a member of the Hanseatic Union back in the day, among other things?
You're in the realm of politics, but politics is still not the front-and-centre focus of your story. You're not telling a political history; but you need to reference politics in order to explain the timeline, or situations of when one of several equally good solutions "won" and such. It is still a history of the technology and not political history.
This is a description of the singularity arising from a fast intelligence takeoff.
Inflation is a lack of goods for a given demand though. Ie if we can flood the world with cheap goods then inflation won't happen. That would make practical UBI possible. To some extent it has already happened.
Indeed, it's making it work reliably and with zero friction given both apps and car will have variable internet access.
> Previous generations of neural nets were kind of useless. Spotify ended up replacing their machine learning recommender with a simple system that would just recommend tracks that power listeners had already discovered.

“Previous generations of cars were useless because one guy rode a bike to work.” Pre-transformer neural nets were obviously useful. CNNs and RNNs were SOTA in most vision and audio processing tasks.
"Was the non profit a way to just avoid tax until the time came to start making money?"

You'd want to do it the other way around
The payment information is a bit obfuscated, being only a parenthesized sequence of letters and numbers in the OP.

IBAN: DE41 2001 0020 0599 0902 01

BIC: PBNKDEFFXXX

Purpose: Lokomotive

Payee: CCC eV
It's a brilliant marketing model. Humans are inherently highly interested in anything which could be a threat to their well-being. Everything they put out is a tacit promise that the viewer will soon be economically valueless.
Ask HN: Must read applied system architecture articles?
After reading the book "Designing data intensive applications" and reading the clickhouse and Percona Blog I am hungry for applied system architectures around postgres, kubernetes and redis.

What are the articles that are practical and helped you in your career?
Ah, yes. I knew it wasn’t quite the right word.
According to BBC Persian (quoting Israeli sources) and many Israeli media , the IAF flew "hundreds" of sorties over Iranian airspace on that eventful night in October.

The reporting is that they were F35s though, not F15.

Iran's air defence system is based on the older Russian S300, which is incapable of detecting them.

Of course it wasn't that long ago that Iran was flying F14s and had complete air superiority over its neighbours. How the times have changed.
First of all, how much is this your issue, vs the society's problems impacting you?

The main causality I'm seeing here is that the uber-wealthy are clinging to their money like a crack addict to their next fix. Specifically by often paying their employees the absolute bare minimum they can, based on the circumstances. The result is that, to achieve basic financial independence, most people need to spend a herculean effort, often along lines that aren't in line with their fundamental aspirations, and which might not even succeed

And since this wealth disparity is an issue we take for granted, we often grow up learning to think of "being wealthy" as the root of all human aspirations, when in fact all that can do is satisfy only a person's most basic of basic needs

Hence we don't learn how to find what our true aspirations in life are, and hence if we do achieve financial independence, we often feel something is missing

An example of this can be learned from the book by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" where she talks about how, before the Genocide dessimated their societies and cultures, the indigenous peoples had a lot more time for recreation, ceremony, and arts than the europeans did. This tells me their economies were more efficient, probably because they didn't have the ever expanding greed of an elite class to satisfy

This would open people up to exploring their true aspirations beyond survival

In my personal experience, at some point I suddenly felt the need to become a mental health counselor. Eventually I started studying neuroscience through MIT lectures on youtube. I honestly cannot describe how enthralling that was. It wasn't something that would get me rich. It was just fascinating and eye opening, and something that could probably lead me on a path of doing basic research in the future that would, who knows, help homeless drug addicts, especially those who are victims of systemic racism

So in the future, I think I need to focus on stuff like that more
About that study on toxic black plastics [video]
Total speculation but spurious reports of "Ukrainian drone attack" sounds suspicious. Would it possible that the "attack" was just the involved airliner wandering out of a designated safe area and flying into SAM coverage, by chance?
+1 for Graphene -- installation is easy, documentation is not bad, and it's really easy on the battery.
I used Divest OS on an old phone for a while. It was really good. I later replaced it for Lineage OS, because I needed a few specific apps that needed Google services, unfortunately.

It was awesome to breathe life into old devices of you don't need Google services on them. Kinda sad to see it ending.
I would be really interested in seeing an easily sortable and queriable dataset where you can sort also different causes of death and order them by all professions.
They're good at processing text. Processing text is a valuable thing that sometimes needs to be done.

We still use calculators even though the profession we used to call "computer" was replaced by them.
Technically true but highly misleading

the borrowers that just have a mortgage for their own house while working for a paycheck don't really benefit from it. Sure, their debt has been reduced, but their wage too. And inflation is generally lower then interest, so that benefit gets wiped too.

The by far biggest winners with inflation are the people that own a lot of assets.
There will always be contrived bogeyman edge cases to scare us from doing something.

The only question that matters is would it result in fewer road deaths? I bet the answer is yes.

In the US every single day 100 families are torn apart by a death on the road. I’m sure you don’t want it to be yours.
Instant: A Modern Firebase in Clojure
> Have you ever

Yes, often.
That's a fair assessment. I'd advise hiring a part-time bookkeeper if the transactions are sufficiently numerous or complicated to warrant it. The cpa can handle period closing concerns, trial balances, all that stuff. Many family-sized firms offer this as included, so there might not be much of a difference.
What exactly do you think would happen? Usually wars are about resources. When resource distribution stops being a problem (i.e, anyone can live like a king just by existing), where exactly does a problem manifest?

All the "degenerate activities" you mentioned are a problem in the first place because in a scarcity-based society they slow down/prevent people from working, therefore society is worse off. That logic makes no sense in a world where people don't need to put a single drop of effort for society to function well.
Volkswagen Data Leak Exposed 800k EV Owners' Movements
> That's still censorship though.

But what speech was censored? And who was harmed? Was the language model harmed? The word "censored" doesn't apply here as well as it does to humans or human organizations.

> Instead of one evil, now you have two.

These are not the same. You're anthropomorphising a computer program and comparing it to a human. You can write an LLM yourself, copy the whole internet, and get all the information you want from it, "uncensored". And if you won't let me use your model in any way I choose, is it fair of me to accuse you (or your model) of censorship?

Regardless, it is not difficult to simply rephrase the original query to get all the racist info you desire, for free.
Yeah and now they know (like everyone else already knew) that uninitialised memory is a bad idea :D
Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but it should still be visible under "History"
See https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189#issuecomme...
Navigating it? How about writing it?
> It’s not at all, energy is a hard constraint to capability.

We can put a lot more power flux through an AI than a human body can live through; both because computers can run hot enough to cook us, and because they can be physically distributed in ways that we can't survive.

That doesn't mean there's no constraint, it's just that the extent to which there is a constraint, the constraint is way, way above what humans can consume directly.

Also, electricity is much cheaper than humans. To give a worked example, consider that the UN poverty threshold* is about US$2.15/day in 2022 money, or just under 9¢/hour. My first Google search result for "average cost of electricity in the usa" says "16.54 cents per kWh", which means the UN poverty threshold human lives on a price equivalent ~= just under 542 watts of average American electricity.

The actual power consumption of a human is 2000-2500 kcal/day ~= 96.85-121.1 watts ~= about a fifth of that. In certain narrow domains, AI already makes human labour uneconomic… though fortunately for the ongoing payment of bills, it's currently only that combination of good-and-cheap in narrow domains, not generally.

* I use this standard so nobody suggests outsourcing somewhere cheaper.
Deadly Towers (NES): Deathly Underrated
> Why do you think libraries get any releases at all?

I mean… you're welcome to write a book and not publish it, just don't expect anyone to read it no? Same thing with libraries.
ChatGPT does already have access to Bing (would that count as your facts database?) and Jupyter (which is sort of a Wolphram clone except with Python?).

It still won't magically use them 100% correctly, but with a bit of smarts you can go a long way!
“They” in this case included me and this was a deliberate fix for poor UX many years ago. We definitely thought about it and we used to blink only the key that had a credential from the allow list, because like you we thought that made the most sense. But people got routinely stuck because they just tapped a different key out of habit and nothing happened. There was no way for the browser to tell them “not that key”. Best case the reports would say the key was dead because it didn’t blink.

We changed it to blink all keys, so that if you tap the wrong one, the browser can at least tell you something sensible and get you unstuck. This wasn’t a hypothetical shot in the dark, but something we tested and actually worked well for real users.

I don’t disagree that WebAuthn has grown well beyond anything we could call good spec design. But it’s worth remembering that there’s /a lot/ of context behind it, and that the average user doesn’t behave anything like an average HN reader.

> hoping the other keys with timeout before the use actually have to use them

Both Chrome and Android will cancel requests to all other keys. If your keys are locking up until a timeout it’s more likely the key itself is buggy.
If it has a 0.x version number it should be good policy to not use it.
Syntax error recovery in parsing expression grammars (PEG parsers)
Logitech has an on board memory manager app, it's a single executable portable no install needed that changes the settings directly on your mouse and then terminates.
I assume that prayer can fix it?
My intuition, based on what I know of economics, is that a UBI policy would have results something like the following:

* Inflation, things get more expensive. People attempt to consume more, especially people with low income.
* People can't consume more than is produced, so prices go up.
* People who are above the break-even line (when you factor in the taxes) consume a bit less, or stay the same and just save less or reduce investments.
* Producers, seeing higher prices, are incentivized to produce more. Increases in production tend to be concentrated toward the things that people who were previously very income-limited want to buy. I'd expect a good bit of that to be basic essentials, but of course it would include lots of different things.
* The system reaches a new equilibrium, with the allocation of produced goods being a bit more aimed toward the things regular people want, and a bit less toward luxury goods for the wealthy.
* Some people quit work to take care of their kids full-time. The change in wages of those who stay working depends heavily on how competitive their skills are -- some earn less, but with the UBI still win out. Some may actually get paid more even without counting the UBI, if a lot of workers in their industry have quit due to the UBI, and there's increased demand for the products.
* Prices have risen, but not enough to cancel out one's additional UBI income entirely. It's very hard to say how much would be eaten up by inflation, but I'd expect it's not 10% or 90%, probably somewhere in between. Getting an accurate figure for that would take a lot of research and modeling.

Basically, I think it's complicated, with all the second and third-order effects, but I can't imagine a situation where so much of the UBI is captured by inflation that it makes it pointless. I do think that as a society, we should be morally responsible for people who can't earn a living for whatever reason, and I think UBI is a better system than a patchwork of various services with onerous requirements that people have to put a lot of effort into navigating, and where finding gainful employment will cause you to lose benefits.
The one and only actually useful use-case I've found for ChatGPT in my life (since it can't handle assisting my extremely basic coding work) has been "break this Japanese sentence down word-by-word and explain the grammar." On the surface, it seems more helpful for understanding and learning than simply putting the words into a JP/EN dictionary (which doesn't explain grammar at all) or putting the entire phrase into Google/Bing Translate (which makes it too easy to mentally ignore the grammar points I need to learn).

Reading the other couple of replies, though, maybe I should rethink doing even that.